Even kids will be asking for their money back after seeing this incredibly stupid story.

| May 13, 2022

The story is sensitively told, reminding young moviegoers that history is made of real people, not the caricatures who inhabit Hollywood myths.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2019

Classic, heartwarming fantasy will rivet kids.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 9, 2013

The didacticism is, for the most part, gracefully meshed with the storytelling, and the special effects never take over the show.

| Nov 4, 2008

Inventive children's yarn with good special effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2007

With a little less moralizing and a little more of the wonder and magic that made [Mathison's] E.T. script so powerful [it] could have been more than just a decent family film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 29, 2005

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Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2003

Wonderful adaptation of classic book

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2003

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: +1 out of -4..+4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000